India’s exports during October, 2012 were
valued at US $ 23246.91 million (Rs. 123264.20 crore) which was 1.63 per
cent lower in Dollar terms (5.89 per cent higher in Rupee terms) than
the level of US $ 23632.02 million (Rs. 116406.37 crore) during October,
2011. Cumulative value of exports for the period April-October 2012 -13
was US $ 166922.57 million (Rs 908340.19 crore) as against US $
177915.69 million (Rs 814708.35 crore) registering a
negative growth of 6.18 per cent in Dollar terms and growth of 11.49 per
cent in Rupee terms over the same period last year.

IMPORTS

India’simports during October, 2012 were valued at US
$ 44208.35 million (Rs.234409.93 crore) representing a growth of 7.37
per cent in Dollar terms and 15.58 per cent in Rupee terms over the
level of imports valued at US $ 41175.06 million ( Rs. 202819.70 crore)
in October, 2011. Cumulative value of imports for the period
April-October, 2012-13 was US 277135.48 million (Rs. 1507202.58 crore)
as against US $ 284721.27 million (Rs. 1304631.60 crore) registering a
negative growth of 2.66 per cent in Dollar terms and growth of 15.53 per
cent in Rupee terms over the same period last year.

CRUDE OIL AND
NON-OIL IMPORTS:

Oil
imports during October, 2012 were valued at US $ 14785.3 million which
was 31.61 per cent higher than oil imports valued at US $ 11234.3
million in the corresponding period last year. Oil imports during
April-October, 2012-13 were valued at US$ 95569.0 million which was 9.99
per cent higher than the oil imports of US $ 86887.7 million in the
corresponding period last year.

Non-oil
imports during October, 2012 were estimated at US $ 29423.1 million
which was 1.73 per cent lower than non-oil imports of US $ 29940.8
million in October, 2011. Non-oil imports during April - October,
2012-13 were valued at US$ 181566.5 million which was 8.22 per cent
lower than the level of such imports valued at US$ 197833.6 million in
April - October, 2011-12.

TRADE BALANCE

The trade
deficit for April - October, 2012-13 was estimated at US $ 110212.91
million which was higher than the deficit of US $ 106805.58 million
during April -October, 2011-12.

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